NY Times; last man standing strategy

[musiclawyer]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/business/media/09times.html

Got this from Huffington Post. So the Times thinks that the other papers will fail and they can survive as the last of the old time newspapers--with 21st century evolution. I think there is a need for a fully staffed newspaper with big budgets and global resources/affiliations. Perhaps their strategy will work. But this sure as hell does not help us out here on the West Coast. I wonder if what need to happen is that someone with money buys LA times and turns it into "the" newspaper of the West Coast-- one with a staff to do real investigative work and the like--because we sure as hell don't have any strong newspaper out here anymore, and we need one. Are we entering the nascent era of the super-paper? An era where only the biggest and most on-line savvy survive. Surely the country needs more than one of these super papers. Discuss.

[villager]

1. well, with the L.A. Times cutting its local coverage...

... we sure as hell need *someone* paying attention to what's going out here on the "left coast..."

[DJ13]

2. The NYT should buy or partner with the LAT

They could pool resources for international/national news, freeing up more resources for their separate local news and entertainment coverage.